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29 Aug 2005, 2:59 pm

Read the book Microserfs by Douglas Coupland. There is a hilarious incident in there involving information that only women should know. It was all summed up in an email sent from one guy to another that simply said "chunky days? Are we supposed to know about this?"


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29 Aug 2005, 4:21 pm

great book.



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29 Aug 2005, 6:11 pm

I'm a girl and don't understand "girl talk" (before Bec's explanation, that is ;)). I asked my NT sister about it the other day and she pretty much just laughed in my face and said "Are you serious you don't know what girl talk is?"


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30 Aug 2005, 5:42 am

I am NT and female and I don't really get girl talk either. In my experience it's just girls that have nothing more interesting to talk about, talking about clothes and make up and boyfriends. I hate it, they expect other girls to join in this girl talk just because they are of the same gender and have therefore gonethrough some similar experiences such as periods. If this is all most girls talk about I can understand why some people are very sexist. I think girls that always engage in girl talk like this are an embarassment to my gender.



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30 Aug 2005, 3:43 pm

Sean wrote:
Over the years, whenever they ask me to excuse them, citing girl talk, they always seem to be indignant over my presence, as if I've violated some social rule that should have been obvious. I know that this isn't the best site to ask this on, but is there some sign to look for that is used as a general unwritten social rule to signify that a male presence is not wanted in a conversation?


I just get that certain look that screams "Girl talk!" and I know when I'm not welcome. Most girls don't mind my presense for it though, but I kind of understand why they usually don't want men involved. I can't quite put it into words.


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